Recommendation please - find and remove duplicate music files?

[colincliff]

Hi,

after many months trying various ways to store my music so that it works well with itunes and server software I have been left with lots of folders with duplicate track files.

Most of them are named differently, for example:
'Oasis - live forever' & 'Oasis - live forever(1)'

Is there any software that will check metadata as well as file names so that i can automatically remove the duplicate files? I guess it would need only need to compare the file size and the track name from the metadata to see if they are the same size.

I really need a recommendation as obviously i'm a bit worried about trying random software on the web incase lots of files dissapear!

I know iTunes has a "show duplicates" option, but that just looks for track name so doesnt help with tracks from different albums such as liver versions etc.

Has anyone else done something similar?

[Dingo]

Fill your boots lad

http://mac.majorgeeks.com/download5236.html

Had loads of duplicates as well and this will sort them out...FREE TOO!!

[papayoyo]

or if you're on PC try this:

http://www.duplicatefileremover.com/

just make sure to delete the most recent versions of the files